PHILIPSBURG:---The Rotary Club of St. Maarten Mid Isle has been continuing the fight to ‘End Polio Now’ with three fundraisers for the Rotary Year 2017-2018.

For their second fundraiser of the Rotary Year, Mid Isle teamed up with Alex n’Ani on August 26th at their Front Street branch for ‘A Charmed by Charity’ event. At this event, Alex n’Ani donated 15 pct of that days’ taking to Mid Isle toward the ‘End Polio Now’ funds. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will match the funds raised with a 2:1 match. President Anjali Manek was on hand to co...

PHILIPSBURG:--- Preparation for the Culture Prize 2018 is in full swing. Thus far the department has received numerous entries from poets, dancers, visual artists, animators, filmmakers, and vocalists.
“We are very pleased with the turnout,” says Policy Officer Sharine Allamby-Duncan. Sharine further states that “the department recognizes that this format is a new premise for artist, especially young emerging artist, who still in their infancy as a creative person, but who are committed to discovering their personal voice of expression”.
The Depa...

PHILIPSBURG:--- A kind and generous female tourist, after reading an article in the Daily Herald regarding the donation of uniforms to the students of the Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performance Arts, decided to donate 20 cardigans to complement the uniforms. These cardigans will be donated to students, who were robbed of theirs by Hurricane Irma.
The tourist, who made the generous donation and chose to remain anonymous, was vacationing on the island for the very first time and was desirous of assisting the youth of the island after the de...

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Electoral Council would like to remind the 93 candidates who contested the 2018 parliamentary elections that, in accordance with the National Ordinance on Registration and Finances of Political Parties, they are required to record all donations received, be it in cash, by check or in kind. These records must be submitted to the Electoral Council ultimately on Monday, March 26, 2018.
Hurricane Irma has left the Electoral Council without its office; therefore, all...

PHILIPSBURG:--- On Saturday, March 17th at approximately 3:45 am, a call came through the police central dispatch about a house on fire in the Belle Tree drive in Cole Bay. Police and fire personnel rushed to the scene where they encountered a home completely engulfed in flames. When speaking to the owner of the home, he explained that he was asleep when he suddenly heard his kids screaming. When he awoke he realized his home was full of smoke. He and his family were able to safely evacuate the home in time without injury. The cause of the fire...

Open letter to the Private Sector of Sint Maarten, the Central Bank, the Department of Statistics, the Ministry of TEATT, the World Bank, The UNDP, the IMF, ECLAC, the CFT, The Governor of Sint Maarten, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and everyone els...

Dear Editor,
I would like to thank my entire campaign team, my family and my faithful supporters for standing next to me for this snap election on February 26.
I also would like to take the opportunity to thank the Leader of the United Democrats (UD) T...

Every politician knows that the key to winning elections is to make great promises. This is the season where politicians mount platforms and sell cures to all the ills of the country. In the spirit of the election season, Sint Maarten’s lon...

GREAT BAY (DCOMM):--- World Oral Health Day (WOHD) is celebrated every year on 20 March. It is an international day to celebrate the benefits of a healthy mouth and to promote worldwide awareness of the issues surrounding oral health and the importan...

MARIGOT:---This year, for the 370th commemoration of the Concordia Treaty, signed on the Mont des Accords on March 23, 1648, the Collectivité of Saint-Martin and its Territorial Youth Council (CTJ), in association with the school community of the Col...

PHILIPSBURG:--- The St. Maarten Police Force would like to express a great deal of gratitude to the public of St. Maarten for the exceptional behavior displayed during the causeway jump up. During the event, there were no reported fights or incidents...

An informative workshop entitled: “Stress, Resilience and Self-care” is being organized by the Student Support Services Division (SSSD) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports for the general public, especially parents.
The objective o...

THE MINISTER OF TOURISM, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, TRAFFIC AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, BASED ON ART. 13 VERORDENING OP DE KEURING VAN MOTORRIJTUIGEN (HEREAFTER “THE ORDINANCE”), INFORMS THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT CONSIDERING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HURRICANES ...

At around 1:55 pm today, March 5, 2018, NV GEBE experienced some issues at the Pond Island Substation which caused outages in parts of Philipsburg, Sucker Garden, and Point Blanche. The technicians at NV GEBE detected that the cause of the outage was...